That's where using a container is an advantage. They provide a container, which allows us to use Kali tools on any Linux distribution of your choice. While Kali is a great distribution for penetration testing, it isn't meant to be used as a daily driver. While a rolling distribution has the advantage of offering the latest versions of software available and it is stable for the most part, it can sometimes break unexpectedly. Kali Linux is a rolling release distribution, and it uses debian testing as a base. Kali Linux has become the de facto Linux distribution for penetration testing for information security professionals thanks to its large and up to date package offering, that it can run across different platforms and CPU architectures, and in a lot of different ways.
While most of time they package a single application, such as Apache, Redis, or others, and are commonly used with orchestration systems such as Kubernetes (K8s), they can also be used as a lightweight virtual machine, and contain a collection of software. Available for x86 and ARM CPUs, and rebuilt daily.Ī container a way to package software with all its dependencies. We released a container for WiFi Penetration Testing based on Kali Linux: finchsec/kali.
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